Sentences with phrase «sort of talked around»

We do see brutality and we know that Candie is a rancid villain, but everything else is sort of talked around or, uncomfortably, treated as commonplace given the context.

Not exact matches

«If you talk to people who've campaigned around the world for human rights and religious rights, they would say that where we are starting is actually on a path that could lead to the same sort of regimes that are elsewhere in the world, certainly in terms of persecution of Christians,» he said.

I have a pile of essays downstairs, I suppose 15 or 18, which are more or less talks I've prepared around the country on all sorts of subjects, but mostly reflections on Indochina and also the nuclear arms race — sometimes from the scriptural viewpoint, sometimes from a purely political one.

It's one of those where the guests just sort of stand around the platter, chewing and not talking.

What sort of baseball things would you talk about, hanging around the water cooler?

The sort of money that is being talked about it costing us to persuade Lyon to part with their talented young forward Alexandre Lacazette, as reported by The Mirror, is around the level of the club's record spending on a single transfer.

This alone would be enough for any organisation to start running around to sort it out and prove that refs are trustworthy at their job, but all we get is no action and the talk of football having great and dependable refs.

There's been a lot of turmeric talk around here lately, and it's made appearances in all sorts of recipes from Golden Chickpea Soup to this Hot Shot Green Smoothie.

The sort of guy who, when his fierce friends are not around, is quite happy to talk about gardening or child - rearing.

These damsels come across more as ridiculous caricatures than actual flesh and blood characters; nobody could retain any sort of patience around people who talk nonsense the way these girls do.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

«The idea that the extremely wealthy not only possess a special skill set but a sort of moral purity has been around for a while,» Dee says, talking about his conception of Hadi.

The panel opened with a video introduction by Alan Moore wherein he spoke about his initial concept that prompted the formation of the Electricomics project, a scenario in which he imagined that «all forms of electronic communication somehow connected up in some mysterious fashion, in which people could talk to each other all around the world and enjoy new sorts of entertainment media», and he also said that this project now contains some of the «very best writing talent and artistic talent in the industry, all coming together to tell stories in a new, hopefully improved way».

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With all the talk of rewarding players and pushing them to benefit a community around a game, the question arose whether Valve was looking to turn Steam into a sort of social network.

Since last week, players around the world have been talking a lot about Monster Hunter: World, a title that has sent fans both new and old into a craze of sorts.

Now let's talk about the progression and Star Card system that's been a very hot topic of debate around the web lately and admittedly sort of confusing since it has gone through a couple changes.

Outside of the card game, there's a sort of RPG dynamic where you walk around on a map, talking with the different characters in the Academy.

I know people like to talk about there being a sort of indie golden age during the 2007 - 2013 years or so, and they're not entirely wrong, but having been around since well before that, I honestly don't see it.

Todd Vaughn our VP of Development and I had talked about it and sort of kicked around this idea, -LSB-...] Last year I think we had reduced it to like 99 cents [during a sale], and we were like «why don't we just make it free?

MA: The show is sort of chosen around the most written - about and talked - about themes or aspects of the 1980s.

At this sort of price level you are talking about a payback period of 7 years or less and an internal rate of return on investment of around 20 %.

[Morano] is sort of digging around in the trash to look for old news because he has nothing currently available to talk about.

Some of it has happened sort of independently of what the lawyers have actually been doing, and more having to do with how Google's getting smarter, and when we talk about specifically in local search, that's definitely played a big role, that Google has evolved to give much more localized and personalized results than they used to, and that's caused the effect of people in your local area being able to find local lawyers, as opposed to if you wrote about a consumer law post and somebody on the other side of the country finds it, now you're going to see Google serving results for consumer lawyers that are in the neighborhood, around the corner.

We've talked quite a bit about sort of the importance of environment and culture at the firm and making sure that maybe checking implicit bias» and then doing training around them I think is going to be part of it.

We've been sort of coming around to the issue, but just how expensive are we talking?

So one is to actually there's a lot to talk about whether lawyers need to learn to code and as I look into things, I see that sort of like the — maybe not the easiest, but sort of the most popular and maybe the easiest way to learn is using a language called Python, which is also a scripting language and there are some things that I'd like to play around with just kind of automating on my own and to learn a language.

While we are still talking with them, we have not got a document that spells it out but it is very much a focus on ensuring that the state or territory government live up to their responsibilities around schooling and policing and those sorts of things.

Well, before I came out here, I tried to do as much research as I could because I wanted to prepare myself but I suppose it was just mostly talking to just parents as much as I could, they were quite curious to know where I came from, I found out that a couple of parents actually worked within local organisations at the language centre and I sort of yeah just started asking her offering to come around and volunteer, like find out little events that I could help out with and join up to and yeah sort of just going out and just really asking and continuing to ask cos a lot of things, you know not need to do the first time but you keep asking and they quite happy to have you back.

Well there's this girl we've known each other about 8 years as about 3 years ago I was in a long term relationship with her sister for about 4 years and we broke up and every relation ship if ever been in my exs sisters always been the reason for my break ups well sort of and well that's when I started getting proper feelings for her i now its wrong as im now 25 ands she just turned 18 but were both crazy like the same thing iv just never been so infactuated about someone like her and she did wan na be with me but turned her down for another girl and well if got such regrets as I do love her and I'm now single and we did try and said that were seeing each other but it worked out to hard as we had sex and it didn't feel right for her like kissing was fine but things like snogging didn't feel right as I'm her sisters ex but her sister accepted and always new I had feelings for sister and well I really waana be with this girl and she's all I now but she just finds the intermussy bit to hard and well she just wants to call us friends but she feels how I feel and well I just don't now what to do as she was the best friend I could always talk to about my problems and now I feel alone cuz she just finds away to shy around it and says things like let's see what the future bring and I'm scared that I blew my chance of being with the one girl that's been there for me my best friend and that tho she Says she want to be with me iI feel like it won't happen and I'm scared that I can't take much more I tell her that I'm not going anywhere but don't now how long I can hold on for